Lil Dagover
118 movies · 2 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 29, 1887
- Died
- Jan 23, 1980 (age 92)
- Place of birth
- Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
- Also known as
- Лиль Даговер · Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert
Biography
A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 years her senior. They divorced in 1919 but not before he had introduced her to director Robert Wiene and other notables of German cinema. She made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's Harakiri (1919). Immediately after she appeared in Wiene's classic expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)). Apart from three trips -- one to Sweden in 1927, another to France in 1928-9 and one to Hollywood in 1931 -- most of Lil Dagover's career and fate was linked to that of the German cinema, where her role was usually that of the frail, menaced heroine. She continued to star in a great number of films during the Nazi era. Among her best performances were her roles in Congress Dances (1931), in Gerhard Lamprecht's The Higher Command (1935) and in Veit Harlan's The Kreutzer Sonata (1937). She also acted in the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, at forces shows and at war theaters. At one time, she was reported to have been a close friend of Adolf Hitler. In 1944, she received the War Merits Cross. Dagover continued her career in post-war Germany, playing many supporting parts until the late 1970s.
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Known for
Lil Dagover: movies and TV shows
Acting (120)
- 1995
- 1979 Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Helene
- 1977 The Standard
as Erzherzogin
- 1977
- 1975 End of the Game
as Gastmann's Mother
- 1975 Memento Mori
as Charmian Colston
- 1973 The Pedestrian
as Frau Eschenlohr
- 1971
- 1971 Kolibri
as Anna Maria Hansen
- 1971 Paradies der alten Damen
as Leonore Feller
- 1971 Professor Sound und die Pille
as Seine Frau
- 1970
- 1969 Hotel Royal
as Maharani von Dungapur
- 1968 Unwiederbringlich
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
- 1967 Lösegeld für Mylady
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
- 1967 Siedlung Arkadien
as Frau Assmann
- 1963 Reisender ohne Gepäck
as Herzogin
- 1961 The Strange Countess
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
- 1961 Der Mann von draußen
as Mrs.Gillis
- 1959 Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
- 1959 Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
- 1958 Trees die upright
as Großmutter
- 1957 Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
as Contessa Celestina Morini
- 1956 Meine 16 Söhne
as Frau Senator Giselius
- 1956 Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
- 1955 Die Barrings
as Thilde von Barring
- 1955 Rosen im Herbst
as Mutter Briest
- 1955 Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
- 1955 Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
as Alice Lechaudier
- 1954 Hubertus Castle
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
- 1953 Königliche Hoheit
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
- 1953 Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
as Gräfin Waldenberg
- 1952 Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
as Lamberta
- 1950 Chased by the Devil
as Frau Dakar
- 1950 Es kommt ein Tag
as Madame Mombour
- 1949 Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
as Florentine Alvensleben
- 1948 Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
as Margot von Korff
- 1944 Musik in Salzburg
as Ursula Sanden
- 1943 Vienna 1910
as Maria Anschütz
- 1942 The Little Residence
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
- 1940 Bismarck
as Eugénie
- 1940 Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
- 1940
- 1939 Streit um den Knaben Jo
as Leonine Brackwieser
- 1939 Detours to Happiness
as Hanna Bracht
- 1938 Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
as Maja
- 1938 Triad
as Cornelia Contarini
- 1938 The Stars Shine
as Gast
- 1938 Rätsel um Beate
as Beate Kaiserling
- 1937 The Kreutzer Sonata
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
- 1937 Fridericus
as Marquise de Pompadour
- 1936 The Final Chord
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
- 1936 August der Starke
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
- 1936 The Girl Irene
as Jennifer Lawrence
- 1935 The Higher Command
as Madame Martin
- 1935 Lady Windermeres Fächer
as Mrs. Erlynne
- 1935 The Bird Seller
as Die Kurfürstin
- 1934 Ich heirate meine Frau
as Lisa Behmer
- 1934 A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
as Manon Cavallini
- 1934 The Fugitive from Chicago
as Eveline
- 1933 Johannisnacht
as Lisa Lers
- 1932 Married by the Stork
as Thea Roland
- 1932 Barbarina, the King's Dancer
as Barberina Campanini
- 1932 The Woman from Monte Carlo
as Lottie Corlaix
- 1931 Madame Bluebeard
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
- 1931 Congress Dances
as Komtesse
- 1931 Elisabeth of Austria
as Elisabeth von Österreich
- 1931 The Case of Colonel Redl
as Vera Nikolayevna
- 1930 Boycott
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
- 1930 Old Song
as Baronin Eggedy
- 1930 Va Banque
as Harriet Williams
- 1930 The Second Kiss
as Empress Marie Theresa
- 1930 There is a woman who will never forget you
as Tilly Ferrantes
- 1930 The White Devil
as Nelidowa
- 1930 The Ring of the Empress
as Catherine the Great
- 1929
- 1929 Monte Cristo
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
- 1929
- 1928 La Grande Passion
as Sonia de Blich
- 1928 The Secret Courier
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
- 1928
- 1928 Hungarian Rhapsody
as Camilla
- 1927 Orientexpress
as Beate von Morton
- 1927 Der Anwalt des Herzens
as June Orchard
- 1927 His English Wife
as Cathleen Paget
- 1926 Only a Dancing Girl
as Marie Berner
- 1926 Der Veilchenfresser
as Melitta von Arthof
- 1926
- 1926 Two Brothers
as Esther
- 1926 Tartuffe
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
- 1925 Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
as Toni
- 1925 The Chronicles of the Gray House
as Bärbe
- 1924 Comedy of the Heart
as Gerda Werska
- 1923 His Wife, the Unknown
as Eva
- 1923 Die Prinzessin Suwarin
as Tina Bermonte
- 1923 Tiefland
as Martha
- 1922 Phantom
as Marie Starke
- 1922
- 1922 Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
as (uncredited)
- 1921
- 1921 Destiny
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
- 1921
- 1921 Das Geheimnis von Bombay
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
- 1921
- 1920 Die Kwannon von Okadera
as Kwannon von Okadera
- 1920
- 1920 The Mayor of Zalamea
as Isabel
- 1920
- 1920 Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
as Malatti
- 1920 Die Frau im Himmel
as Tatjana
- 1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Jane
- 1919
- 1919 Harakiri
as O-Take-San
- 1919 The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
as Sun Priestess Naela
- 1919 The Dancer
as Andreas Mother
- 1919
- 1919
- 1919
- 1918
- 1918
Talk shows and appearances (8)
- 2017
- 1973
- 1968 Seniorenclub
1 episode
- 1964 Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1 episode
- 1963 Blick zurück im Film
1 episode
- 1951 German Film Award
2 episodes
- 1948 Bambi
1 episode
- 1930